The song you are listening to is "Going Back Home" featured on Seaman Dan's third album "Perfect Pearl", released in 2003. Click on icon to play song. To order a CD, please email: info@seamandan.com.au |
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Released 2005 Seaman Dan - "Island Way" (TI001) |
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Seaman Dan's latest released album "Island Way" features 11 new songs combining blues, jazz, hula and folk - all done 'island style' in an easy-going celebration of life and love in the tropics. It also makes musical connections with Oceania - where some of his ancestors originated - with songs about Torres Strait, Norfolk Island, Hawaii, Polynesia and Melanesia. Recorded and produced at Pegasus Studios, Cairns by Nigel Pegrum and Karl Neuenfeldt, "Island Way" features some of the region's most outstanding musicians and singers: including the voice of Torres Strait Islanders recorded on Thursday Island and a 30-member Fijian choir recorded in Suva. |
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Released 2003 Seaman Dan - "Perfect Pearl" (HOT1094) |
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| "Perfect Pearl" celebrates the multicultural music styles of Torres Strait and tropical Australia. Featuring 12 tracks - a superb collection of hula, blues, slow jazz, maritime and string band songs from Torres Strait, Darwin, Broome and Papua New Guinea - all places where he lived, worked and absorbed the music. "Perfect Pearl" also won an ARIA Award for the Best World Music Album in 2003. | ||
Released 2002 Seaman Dan - "Steady Steady" (HOT1079) |
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| This album celebrates a broad musical diversity with musicians and singers from Torres Strait, mainland Australia, Europe, North America, Melanesia and Polynesia. Yet it remains "Steady Steady" in its love of the Torres Strait region Seaman Dan calls home. | ||
Released 2000 Seaman Dan - "Follow The Sun" ( HOT1079) |
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| His debut album "Follow The Sun", features 13 beautifully written songs reflecting the many music's and cultures found in the Torres Strait. As he explains: "Thursday Island is a multicultural society and through the pearling industry there were songs from all over the world. You listen to all these elderly people as they sing and you add bits and pieces to your own song as you go on." Seaman Dan combines the traditions of Australia, America, Africa and Polynesia into a truly unique musical style, as you will hear on this wonderful album. |
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